Word: sole
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Asserting that nations are concerned with "war objectives rather military capacity," M. S. Arnoni, editor of The Minority of One, last night said the United States' sole aim in World War I would be the "economic penetration" of the Soviet bloc...
...last five years, the Army has been "the sole buyer in a buyer's market." As a result, its standards have been gradually raised, so that many men who would have qualified during World War Two are now rejected. Holmes attacks these higher standards, decries the lack of an induction category for "limited duty" (for men who are not combat fit), and complains that "personnel who in the past have made the best truck drivers and combat soldiers are being denied entrance into the cold-war army...
...heirs sold the rights to Printers George and Charles Merriam of Springfield, Mass., but the Merriams failed to get sole right to Webster's name, which is now in the public domain -hence the modern multiplicity of "Webster's" dictionaries...
Other teams' rebuilding problems have not been so easy. Kirkland, though retaining most of last fall's backfield, lost half its line and is now working with a forward wall averaging only about 170 lbs. a man. The sole sizable lineman is guard Bruce Kruger, well over 200 lbs. The back to watch with Kirkland is Lee Raitz, tailback in the Deacons' single-wing attack. This formation is no surprise, since Kirkland coach Tom Morris played out of it for two years as an all-Ivy tailback at Princeton in the days after Dick Kazmaier...
...their 270 seats in the Bundestag, well short of the absolute majority the Chancellor had vowed to retain. With Berlin's spirited Mayor Willy Brandt as their candidate, the Socialists only topped their 1957 vote by a meager 4.5%, wound up with 190 seats. The election's sole victors turned out to be Erich Mende's Free Democrats (see following story). Throughout Adenauer's slugging match with Brandt, the Free Democrats had quietly recruited fugitives from both major parties, wound up with nearly double their 1957 vote and the prize of 66 Bundestag seats...